Category: Health Data

Lacombe police are investigating after a portable hard drive device was stolen from a medical clinic. The hard drive contained back up copies of Alberta Health Services’ Central Alberta Pain & Rehabilitation Institute client records. The device was the property of the Dr. Burnham & Associates Medical Clinic. Read more on CTV.ca. The Lacombe Globe…

Patients at The Smile Center in St. Paul, Minnesota don’t have much to smile about this week. Bill Keller reports on another disturbing breach – one that reportedly occurred four months ago but victims are first being notified now: Delta Dental is announcing that personal information used in a lawsuit between the company and a…

Okay, here’s a disturbing news item from WISH-TV: Speedway Police say a burglar broke into a storage barn behind the Comfort Dental Offices at 2955 North High School Road, stealing a bicycle and maybe even medical records of dental patients. According to information from police, the intruder broke into the barn late Monday night. Officers…

Jennifer Wadsworth reports: Someone broke into an eye doctor’s office on May 8 and stole a laptop with information about hundreds of patients. The burglar broke into the offices of EyeCare Associates of the San Ramon Valley and took the laptop, which held eye photos and names of 611 patients. There was a lock on…

The Information Commissioner’s Office has found that Somerset County Council breached the Data Protection Act by sending a social service assessment about a local teenager to the wrong family. The Council reported the breach to the ICO in February 2011, shortly after the incident took place. The ICO’s investigation found that the assessment – which…